intricate

From Latin intricatus, past participle of intricare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/

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intricate (comparative more intricate, superlative most intricate)

1. Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.

   The architecture of this clock is very intricate.

   • 1715 May 15 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 39. Wednesday, May 4. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:

     His style of writing […] was […] fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding […] with the utmost clearness.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

   • 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

     From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.

As the adjective; or by analogy with extricate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tɹɪ.keɪt/

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intricate (third-person singular simple present intricates, present participle intricating, simple past and past participle intricated)

1. (intransitive) To become enmeshed or entangled.
   • 1864 October 18, J.E. Freund, “How to Avoid the Use of Lint”, letter to the editor, in The New York Times (1864 October 23):

     […] washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.

2. (transitive) To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
   • 1994 December 12, William Safire, “Avoid Dunkirk II” (essay), in The New York Times:

     But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated.

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• acitretin, triacetin, triactine

intricate f pl

1. feminine plural of intricato

intricate

1. inflection of intricare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

• recintati, trinciate

intrīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of intrīcō

intricate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of intricar combined with te